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| 292589992 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428) | 0 | |
| 292589993 | bubonic plague | A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans in late stages of the illness can spread the bacteria by coughing. High mortality rate and hard to contain. Disastrous. (280) | 1 | |
| 292589994 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 2 | |
| 292589995 | Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe | 3 | |
| 292589996 | eunuchs | castrated males, originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government, especially in China. | 4 | |
| 292589997 | Filippo Brunelleschi | Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446) | 5 | |
| 292610798 | gunpowder | explosive agent that originally started in china but then started to progress west through warfare | 6 | |
| 292610799 | Hongwu | First Ming emperor in 1368; originally of peasant lineage; original name Zhu Yuanzhang; drove out Mongol influence; restored position of scholar-gentry | 7 | |
| 292610800 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. (p. 373) | 8 | |
| 292610801 | Isabel of Castile | -Queen of Spain at the completion of the Reconquista (Aragon and Castile defeated the last Muslims in Grananda) -married Ferdinand of Aragon which joined Aragon and Castile | 9 | |
| 292610802 | Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire. (p. 351) | 10 | |
| 292610803 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter Leonardo is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503). | 11 | |
| 292610804 | mandarins | Chinese scholar-officials who had been trained in Confucian principles and possessed great class solidarity. | 12 | |
| 292610805 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324) | 13 | |
| 292610806 | Melaka | The first major center of Islam in Southeast Asia, a port kingdom on the southwestern coast of the Malay Peninsula. | 14 | |
| 292610807 | Michelangelo Buonarotti | a famous painter and sculpter during the reniassance that expressed human emotions such as anger , sorrow, and strength in his paintings and sculptures. His most famous work is a mural on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel in the vativan Palace in Rome. It cover 6000 sq. ft. and is made up of 145 seperate paintings | 15 | |
| 292610808 | Ming Dynasty | A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia | 16 | |
| 292610809 | Petrarch | (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. | 17 | |
| 292610810 | Prince Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 18 | |
| 292610811 | reconquista | The effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492. | 19 | |
| 292610812 | Renaissance | The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 20 | |
| 292610813 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 21 | |
| 292610814 | sugarcane | tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks produced sweet good that spread rapidly around the world | 22 | |
| 292610815 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. (p. 428) | 23 | |
| 292610816 | Yongle | Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel (355) | 24 | |
| 292610817 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. (pp. 355, 422) | 25 |
